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CMS and OIG Issue Waivers from Fraud and Abuse Laws for the Medicare ACO Shared Savings Program


If necessity is the mother of invention, then it only makes sense that the final rules governing accountable care organization (ACO) eligibility for the new Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) be accompanied by waivers of certain fraud and abuse laws. After all, creating an ACO eligible for shared savings will be challenging. Creating an eligible ACO to ensure complete compliance within the existing fraud and abuse framework would have been impossible.

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